I don’t like to fail. I don’t think anyone does. The differences among us is that some of us handle failure better than others. Taking it further, I think we all handle some failures fairly well and others not at all. So what does this have to do with today? …
As you probably noticed I’ve been on a bit of a smoothie kick lately. It occurred to me after making a few sauces lately that in a way a sauce is like a savory smoothie. I know that doesn’t seem earth shattering, but you see, I’ve always understood the importance …
It used to be that I could count on Bakers’ Best for all my holiday needs. Whatever I did not have time, desire or ability to make I could pick up at Bakers’ Best to round out my menu. A few years ago Bakers’ Best closed their restaurant/deli/takeout spot and …
Sometime’s a child’s request is a snowball of ‘little things’ that make you feel like you are at the end of your rope. You are packing lunches, figuring out schedules, trying to find a new sitter, exhausted from the 1 a.m. request to come “lie with me because I’m sneezy …
Made with Rhonna Designsp Some days are just harder than others. Thank goodness there is always tomorrow.
After the morning photos of 1st Day of school grins, with relative sizes of backpacks, levels of toothlessness, what is there? Well, these days there is the requisite Facebook status update, or Instagram photo, and then we head our separate ways to home, to work, to our PureBarre classes, and …
I don’t remember getting new outfits, backpacks or lunch boxes each year for school. There were no #BTS haircuts, shopping trips, Instagram photos at the bus. My mom was not a shopper nor was she a photographer iPhone, 35 mm film, Polaroid or not. I still got the ‘back to …
Whether you watched the tides go out and come in, or you went to the city, or mountains or valleys, like every day, a vacation has its own ebb and flow. Really, each day has an ebb and flow, as does each year, each season. To every action there is …
I love my apps. Most of them are not games but I have fun playing. It’s just that I like to play with photos and social media. The rest of them are tools for my work/life and games for the kids. One of the newest apps that I love is …
Cleaning up one’s desk it is not only an exercise in sorting, cleansing, purging and organizing, but in philosophy as well. Here is the little bit of ‘food for thought’ I came across while sorting through the mountain if collected crap that all gets deposited on my desk). I think …
